Among the preachers of climate apocalypse, Roger Pielke Jr. is a heretic. Pielke’s sin: refusing to fall in line and accept the claims that climate chaos is upon us and that the only solution to the pending catastrophe is to implement immediate and drastic cuts to carbon dioxide emissions in every country in the world, including the impoverished ones.
Just as Martin Luther challenged the corruption he saw in the Roman Catholic church by tacking his 95 theses onto the church door in Wittenberg, Pielke here launches a challenge to climate-change orthodoxy. Pielke is no Luther, of course; but given the religious nature of much of the debate, which is often couched in terms of believers-versus-skeptics and catastrophists-versus-deniers, the comparison is apt.
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